When Matthew Lyle married Esther Blair in 1731, his father, James Lyle, was the lessee of some lands near by. On these leased lands Matthew Lyle made his home and lived some years. On expiration of the lease the lands passed to a John Patton as the highest bidder. Thus deprived of a home Matthew Lyle decided to join in the movement to America. The site of the early home of Matthew Lyle must have been highly favorable to be chosen at a later date by the Chichester family as a residential spot. It is related that this new home stands on the exact site were Matthew Lyle lived and that some of the old foundations, were utilized in its construction. Matthew Lyle married, in 1731, Esther Blair, whose lineage is elsewhere given. The record of the proclamation of the banns of this marriage was found in the church at Larne. Elizabeth, the oldest daughter of Matthew Lyle, was left in Ireland when her parents came to America. She was the life renewable in lease of lands to an uncle, Daniel Blair. Evidently it was intended she should come later to America, but she married in, or near, 1750, and this kept her in Ireland. Her first husband was William Thompson, by whom she had three daughters. Her second husband was Matthew Donald, a cousin of her first husband. By Donald she has issue born in Ireland and America. One of her children was born at sea, which establishes the date of here coming in 1775. Matthew Lyle died in Virginia in 1774. By his will, 110 acres of land on Timber Ridge was given to his daughter Elizabeth "on condition she come in from Ireland within the terms of three years". She brought with her the three daughters by Thompson. It will strike the readers of this book how many are the descendants of these three Thompson girls who married in this country and had home in Tennessee
